Here’s a series of images created for The Milken Institute. The think tank takes a look at the American Dream and finds that it is falling apart.
America has turned into a rigid, stratified society. Parents’ income is the best predictor of a child’s future earning potential. The ideas that an individual can climb to the top from less-than-humble beginnings or that each successive generation will have it better than it’s parents appear to be myths that can’t withstand the pressure of mild scutiny.
Richard V. Reeves and Isabel Sawhill examine how social mobility in the United States got stuck and how to go about fixing it.
